[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 02:18:22 -0000 (UTC), Dan Cross wrote:

> The Sun acquisition was based on the observation that many of Sun's
> customers were buying Sun machines running Solaris primarily to run
> Oracle's DBMS.

Oracle bought Sun to get control of Java. Nothing more, nothing less. 
After the acquisition, they essentially threw away everything else.

And then got annoyed when Google found a way to make lots of money from 
open-source Java, without paying them a cent.